Combined milk-can opener and sealer



Nov. 24, 1925. 1,563,272

A. FONAAS COMBINED MILK CAN OPENER AND SEALER 1 Original Filed @135 5.1924 a-. l lll lllli ll llllll INVEN TOR.

FILEIERT FEINFIFIS A U 'ORNEY Patented Nov. 24, 1925.

um'rsn STATES PATENT OFFECE.

GOMBINED MILK-CAN OPENER AND SEALER.

Application filed August 5, 19%, Serial No. 730,251. Renewed October 12,1925.

7 '0 all who-m it may concern Be it known that I, ALBERT FONAAS, acitizen of the United States, residing at Schofield Barracks, in theTerritory of Hawaii, have invented new and useful Improvements inCombined Milk-Can Openers and Sealers, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to improvements in a combined milk can opener,sealer and dispenser.

The principal object of this invention is to provide means whereby anordinary milk can may be opened so as to dis ense the contents therefromand later scale so as to prevent contamination of the contents.

Another object is to rovide means whereby the contents may e dispensedwithout coming into contact with the outside of the can.

A still further object of this invention is to produce a device of thischaracter which is extremely simple and therefore cheap to manufacture.

Another object is to provide a puncturing medium which will also serveto retain the device upon the can.

Other objects and advantages will be apparent durmg the course of thefollowing description.

In the accompanying drawings formin a part of this specification and inwhich like numerals are employed to designate like parts throughout thesame,

Figure 1 1s a top plan view of a can having my device applied thereto.

gigure 2 is a side elevation of my device an Figure 3 is a. verticalcross section of my device attached to a can.

Applicant is aware of the fact that many forms of can openers have beendevised for the purpose of punching holes in the top of cans, but theseopeners, in most instances, provided no means forsealingthe can after ithad been opened and further permitted the contents of the can to flowover the outside thereof which was unsanitary and also unsightly.

I have, therefore, devised means for opening the can and also dispensingthe same without permitting the contents to come into contact with theoutside of the can.

In the accompanying drawings wherein provided with an upturned fingerpiece 16 to facilitate the movement of the same, as will be later seen.At 17 I have shown a lip formed upon the casting 7, which lip serves thepurpose of a spout and also acts as a stop for the cover plate when thesame is rotated in a counter clock-wise direction, thus bringing theends of the cover plate into such a position that they will cover theends of the tubes 8 and 9.

In employing my device, the same is pressed upon the top of the can sothat the points 11 and 12 pierce the can with a result that ,a portionof the top of the same is cut and bent as shown at 18 and 19. These cutportions bear against the tubes and serve to maintain the device, as awhole, upon the top of the can until the same is forcibly removed. Afterthe device has been placed upon the can, by manipulating the fingerpiece 16 the cover plate 13 may be moved to the position shown in Figure1, after which the contents of'the can may be dispensed through the tube9 from which it will flow over the lip 17. The pi e 8 will act as avent, the purpose of whic is wellknown.

It will thus be seen that I have provided a very simple device, whichwill accomplish all of the objects above set forth.

It is to be understood that the form of my loll casting, tubes securedto said casting, said tubes having pointed ends and being capable ofpiercing t e top of a can a cover plate secured to said castin and aapted to overlie said tubes, means or rotating said cover plate for thepurpose of exposing the ends of said tubes, said means consisting of afinger-piece formed integral with sai plate, and a lip formed on saidcasting and ads. ted to extend beyond the outer margin of t e can beingoperated upon and inclined to upwardly so as to lie in a lane above theopening of the tubes secure thereto.

In testimony whereof I aflixv m si ture.

ALBERT ONQKS.

